Pretty much as the title says: you pick your favourite band, and recommend it here, preferably with a link to a good song or video of theirs.

I'm gonna recommend The Strokes. Here's my favourite song (although the video is boring.) They're a great indie rock band.

So go ahead, suggest away. But limit it to the one artist please so that people don't get overwhelmed. Maybe if this thread does okay, people could recommend an artist per genre or something. I just think most will be ignored if there are tons of bands being listed off.

I'm going to come out of left field and post a band most people probably won't/don't enjoy, unless you're actually into the genre. The genre is math rock. Or maybe noise rock. Genres are stupid. Because this is AWESOME regardless.

My recommendation is Hella, which used to be a guitar/drum duo, but have since then added many more members into the band. I prefer the old days, and this video will be a symbol of their technical ability. Even if you don't like the music, you have to admit how talented they are. Also, the drummer headbutts a fucking cymbal in it.

Don't ever ask me this question in person unless you want to walk away with a list of about 300 artists. I simply cannot answer those 'fave artist/band/album' questions. I never have just one, more like thirty at a time.

This isn't favourite. (Were it favourite I would have to have posted a Johnny Cash song). Instead this is your chance to reccommend somethign awesome that you think maybe people would like but not have seen.

Now, I would NORMALLY recommend Clutch, but the thing is, I ALWAYS recommend Clutch. They're a semi-big American band, and they're going to be getting a lot of play, since I heard them LAST NIGHT during a preview for a new show this fall... so after, what, 14 years of epic albums, their weakest one will make them famous. Of course.

But no, I am going to recommend Big Sugar. They're Canadian, they're harder than most metal groups, they've got more funk than a truckload of rappists, and they're smoother than just about anything out there. (They also broke up, but you can hear their new incarnation as the Texas band Grady, who I am going to see next month). YouTube doesn't do them justice, because they NEED high-quality audio and good speakers, but here's the best I can find. None of their best songs are on YouTube, but if you want to hear them, send me a PM.
Big Sugar - Ride Like Hell

And if you feel like something a bit more mellow, try The Guggenheim Grotto. Mates of mine. I played bass and guitar with them for a while.

No way! I love them. Great songwriters.

My recommendation is Hella, which used to be a guitar/drum duo, but have since then added many more members into the band. I prefer the old days, and this video will be a symbol of their technical ability. Even if you don't like the music, you have to admit how talented they are. Also, the drummer headbutts a fucking cymbal in it.

From what I've heard so far, they're pretty damn impressive. I've been wanting to get into mathcore/whatever for a while now. Any other suggestions in the genre?

I'm going to have to suggest Cake. They're amazing, and essentially made thier own genre. Not many modern bands do that. Don't stone me, but I put them on par with the Beatles.

Also, the entire genre of ska. Check out Reel Big Fish or Streetlight Manifesto to see if you like it. They both put on some of the best shows you'll ever go to.

Lightning Bolt is a similar set up, except instead of a guitarist it's a bassist, and he makes his bass sound like hell is screaming. They play awesome 'guerilla shows' which are basically in the middle of the crowd, and because a majority of Lightning Bolt fans are dumb/douchebags, they end up getting hit by the drummer. Good videos of them are hard to find, but here are two that might grab your interest.

Black Eyes were an old Dischord band (Fugazi, Minor Threat, Q And Not U) . They had two drummers, two bassists a guitarist (mostly for noise) and everybody just yelling. They're an old, dead band so it's hard to find good videos as well, but here's one (that's part of a 3 part series, you can find them yourself).

This band may be a bit out of left field, but I'm a big fan of MÃ¤go de Oz (note: music is fine, but video may possibly be NSFW depending on what part is showing). They're a Spanish heavy metal band with a big Celtic influence. I really like their stuff.

Dinosaur Jr, they're a very good, very early garage band. Look them up on YouTube, I recommend the song "The Wagon", but anything by them is pretty good. I haven't heard a single bad song yet (Although I'm not too crazy about their most recent album).

Agalloch. I can't conceive how anyone could not love this music, yet they are for some reason not revered as demigods by most people. I have no choice but to conclude that this is because most people haven't heard it.

So, I got tired of the fact that the appearance of my band name in my signature made my posts on this forum the dominant result when googling for my music. Anyway, if you think I might happen to be a good musician, you can test this theory here.

So I'm going to try and keep the list in the very single digits. >.>
The Stiletto Formal (I recommend "Hills Like White Elephants".)
Tokyo Rose (Again, a song recommendation: "We Can Be Best Friends, But Tomorrow I'll Be...")
Rise Against (These are both really good songs, but you should check out their MySpace and listen to "The Good Left Undone".)
Fugazi (OK, they don't have an actual MySpace or anything on Purevolume, so go to that... impostor... MySpace and listen to ""Waiting Room".)

OK, I kept it down as much as I could. If anybody wants any other recommendations, just PM me. I'd be happy to give you lists of awesome bands. ^_^

xooll wrote:Agalloch. I can't conceive how anyone could not love this music, yet they are for some reason not revered as demigods by most people. I have no choice but to conclude that this is because most people haven't heard it.

Agolloch kicks major ass. Huge fan of Ashes Against the Grain.

65daysofstatic. I guess you could call them math rock? I kind of think they sound a little bit like Explosions in the Sky, but with electronic mixing/samples/etc.

I'm kind of on a post-rock/math-rock kick right now, so I'll also recommend Volta do Mar. This band has two bass players. One plays a 5 string, and the other plays a 6 string. They have most of the melodies. They are kick ass.

Rippy wrote:Yes, Cake is awesome also. Nugget is teh shit, only RATM has repeated the f-bomb more times in one song that I know of, and still made an awesome song out of it.

Their fourth album is SOOOOOOO good! (it was one of those, I love this band, but maybe they will let me down...NOPE! Better than ever!)

I have all their albums, And their fifth(Pressure Cheif: '04) album is so bad....

But the rest of their stuff is AWESOME! Comfort Eagle is their best, though. it's SO GOOD!

I think I need to listen to Motorcade of Generosity ('94) again. I hardly even think of it. I usually just think of Prolonging the Magic('98), Fashion Nugget('96) and Comfort Eagle('01).

They are one of my favorite bands. They played here for free the first year I lived here, but I missed it, because I had no one to go with and felt akward going alone. It was free too.

It freaks me out how well Amazon works. I look at a cake cd and it tells me other people who bought it also bought a Beck cd. Granted I don't like Odelay much, but I Beck is another one of my favorite bands. It was also the Cake cd I don't like though, so it makes sense.

I'm going to say Â¡Forward, Russia! with "Nineteen". The video is a bit odd, and the band is very pretentious (all their songs are numbered, they spell their name with an upside exclamation point etc.), but who cares when the songs are so fantastic!

These guys are awesome, and this song is the same. It's where my sig comes from. The link has some minor swearing in it, so NSFW or children ages 3 and under.

Not bad.

schrodingersduck wrote:I'm going to say Â¡Forward, Russia! with "Nineteen". The video is a bit odd, and the band is very pretentious (all their songs are numbered, they spell their name with an upside exclamation point etc.), but who cares when the songs are so fantastic!

GOOD! I was a little too mesmerized by the video for awhile to listen to the music, but once I did it was good. :~)